Composer 2 vs DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking)

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 66 to 62. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking)'s sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 69.4 against 61.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 61.7% to 71%.

Composer 2 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.50 input / $2.50 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking). That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Composer 2 gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking).

Quick Verdict

Pick DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Composer 2 only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 200K context window.

Agentic

DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking)

Composer 2

61.7

DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking)

69.4

61.7%
Terminal-Bench 2.0
71%
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BrowseComp
70%
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OSWorld-Verified
67%

Coding

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73.7%
SWE Multilingual
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97.2%
React Native Evals
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HumanEval
79%
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SWE-bench Verified
48%
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LiveCodeBench
45%
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SWE-bench Pro
58%

Multimodal & Grounded

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MMMU-Pro
66%
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OfficeQA Pro
77%

Reasoning

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MuSR
81%
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BBH
86%
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LongBench v2
78%
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MRCRv2
78%
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ARC-AGI-2
4%

Knowledge

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MMLU
87%
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GPQA
85%
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SuperGPQA
83%
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HLE
22%
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FrontierScience
77%
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SimpleQA
83%

Instruction Following

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IFEval
85%

Multilingual

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MGSM
84%
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MMLU-ProX
79%

Mathematics

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AIME 2023
87%
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AIME 2024
89%
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AIME 2025
88%
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HMMT Feb 2023
83%
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HMMT Feb 2024
85%
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HMMT Feb 2025
84%
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BRUMO 2025
86%
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MATH-500
84%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Composer 2 or DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking)?

DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) is ahead overall, 66 to 62. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 61.7% and 71%.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Composer 2 or DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking)?

DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.4 versus 61.7. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 18, 2026

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